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Confessionally Reformed catholic/Presbyterian.
Austro-Libertarian. Anti-woke.
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since 2023-02-28

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2024-11-06 04:36:32

If the stove isn't giving enough heat: don't yell at it for being cold and dirty. Light a fire in it.
Let the reader understand.

2024-11-04 17:07:34

Wife needed her contacts.vcf on multiple #grapheneOS profiles*.
- installed DAVx5-ose (free) on each profile via #Obtanium.
- connected each DAVx5-ose to her #NextCloud account on our home server.
- contacts.vcf is now not only backed up, but kept in sync across all profiles.
#FOSS for the win!
* this is actually a hack because Android 15 broke MMS messaging on secondary profiles. She now needs to switch to primary profile to send pics or respond to group msgs. (She's a homeschool Mom, so the group texting is a critical life function [LOL]). Annoying to have to do this, but workaround works so far--and returning to an Apple device would be like Sarah looking back to Sodom after having escaped its judgment.

2024-11-02 10:55:12

gm
#nevent1q…vg8s

2024-11-01 20:52:57

tired. ornery. fed up with clown cuckooland. in my lane.
#tgif
8 mins 'til the weekend.

2024-11-01 19:19:47

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Signal fork, allegedly with better security (?)
https://molly.im/

2024-11-01 16:56:20

switched to #molly. like it.

2024-11-01 16:49:30

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I use these daily, and like them well enough. Added bonus, they don't interfere with the old school curve of my baseball hat's brim
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2024-10-31 17:19:18

first things first:
Make Church Great Again
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/machen/Christianity%20and%20Liberalism%20-%20J.%20Gresham%20Machen.pdf
#MCGA

2024-10-30 16:29:38

leftover taco meat + 3 eggs on the griddle
douse w/ homemade habanero hot sauce
side of local chorizo
= gastro bliss
why do people still go to "let us microwave that for you" chain restaurants?
#foodstr

2024-10-30 14:00:47

hmmmm
"[What is the 'Woke Right'?](https://newdiscourses.com/2024/10/what-is-the-woke-right/)" (New Discourses)
Dr. Lindsay, I think, needs to do some more reading on "the right," because this seems, to me, verry muddled. Here's a recommended reading list:
- Ralph Raico, [Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School](https://cdn.mises.org/Classical%20Liberalism%20and%20the%20Austrian%20School_2.pdf)
- Justin Raimondo, [Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement](https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-American-Right-Conservative-Movement/dp/1933859601/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cxb0iD4gDGUBajF3vIcMyfgkJh99nZTR0PX22TR56qgA2mKwmwjrpcHWbnKKhjnFJDO_5KIep7siHNl0Wpc9j-snUcW9A-idahm-hcr4ejI.FF1rjzPV1lizdTbeq1-a2l4fOxmpq-qo7Su6ClN_9fs&qid=1730295668&sr=8-1)
- Murray Rothbard, [The Betrayal of the American Right](https://cdn.mises.org/files/2024-04/Betrayal%20of%20the%20American%20Right.pdf)
Murray Rothbard, [Anatomy of the State](https://cdn.mises.org/anatomy-of-the-state.pdf)
- Sheldon Richman, [America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited](https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Counter-Revolution-Constitution-Sheldon-Richman/dp/0692687912)
- Lysander Spooner, [No Treason,](https://oll.libertyfund.org/search/results?kind=&q=spooner)
- Patrick Buchanan is often good vs. the neocons (but his economics are protectionist)
- The writings of Garet Garrett
- The writings of John T. Flynn
caveat: citation is not full endorsement. (But pretty close 😅 )
#politics #ClassicalLiberalism #Libertarian #NaturalLaw #NaturalRights

2024-10-29 20:18:32

"Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child."
#nevent1q…a4h3

2024-10-29 18:52:26

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In theory, I like it. In practice...let me flee NJ first! 😅

2024-10-29 18:50:57

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I think they will go black -- as in black markets. And flight into hard assets, except for the Cantillionaires and ESG/DEI grifters.

2024-10-29 13:26:58

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Kobayashi vibes in the replies. Tragic.
OP 🎯

2024-10-28 20:22:52

Thought-provoking...
https://podverse.fm/episode/7u-Wh8Do-

2024-10-28 14:52:31

...10/31 also marks the publication of the bitcoin whitepaper--thus kicking off a reformation in money...
#nevent1q…rma8

2024-10-28 14:33:18

True Christian faith is like Greek fire--the harder you try to extinguish it, the more furiously and gloriously it burns.

2024-10-28 14:28:19

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The day we commemorate Martin Luther's nailing of the 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, thus kicking off the Protestant Reformation--a recovery of the gospel.

2024-10-28 02:39:32

Happy Reformation Sunday to all who celebrate.
POST TENEBRAS LUX
#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

2024-10-25 23:27:58

#asknostr
Ever since the #grapheneOS update to #Android 15, wife cannot send, or reply to, MMS messages from a secondary profile.
Can send from primary, so not a carrier issue.
Can send individual SMS. If she tries to send an MMS, it gets stuck on "sending..." and SMS messages also stop. She deletes the stuck MMS message, and the othe SMS messages go through.
Tried both stock SMS app and Google messages with RCS enabled. Refreshed/reinstalled/installed new eSIM more than once.
...any ideas?

2024-10-23 21:30:28

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porque no ahora

2024-10-21 23:29:44

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...added...! 🤙

2024-10-21 17:49:56

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Congrats! !

2024-10-16 22:58:27

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it's an asterisk

2024-10-16 14:16:29

#privacy
- connect to VPN, get pseudo 'from' IP address
- log in to site/account that has your KYC information (including mailing address)
- pseudo 'from' IP address added to your 'known aliases'
- them: "...OK what other sites were visited by that IP around the same time? ...wait, he uses the *same* public IP address all day, every day? ...wow, he's not even trying...LOL."
- VPN useless
Seems to me that there's no point in trying to keep our online activity private if we're logging in to our bank or any other site that already has all our info anyway--then we've only exposed our 'fake' public IP address as *me*. Think how easy it would be to then track *that* IP address. Silly to think this is an effective way to remain private.
I guess this is why so many privacy advocates have emphasized some combination of VPN + Tor for IP address obfuscation. But the minute you log in to a site that has your KYC info, you're "burned." It's like putting on a disguise to get cash out of the ATM--by inserting your card and entering your code, your "disguise" is pointless: it's you--and you even verified it's you with a password!
I've been adamant about getting whole-home VPN set up, but now I don't know if I even care. As long as we have adequate DNS content filtering (especially for the kids' sakes), then maybe that's good enough for now. Have everyone use tor-browser, or Brave's Private window-with-Tor, and call it a day. But even then, "Tor is not a panacea."
Thoughts welcome.

2024-10-16 13:18:39

Did you know that 'wife' is an ancient sanskrit abbreviation for 'wildcard'?
Yeah, and the heiroglyph is ```*```.
#TrueFact

2024-10-14 23:53:00

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ecomony?
you talk weird

2024-10-14 23:05:46

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I'm guessing you'll have to buy

2024-10-14 23:02:09

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FT3IGXtAk&pp=ygUqd2F5bmUncyB3b3JsZCBhbGljZSBjb29wZXIgbWlsd2F1a2VlIHF1b3Rl

2024-10-14 22:49:30

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I think Alice Cooper knows about Milwaukee

2024-10-14 22:45:55

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been watching it live like in spaceballs

2024-10-14 22:19:01

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send $4.99 and your soul in a SASE

2024-10-14 22:09:17

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Ridiculosity.
"There is entirely too much _ridiculosity_ in my feed today."
Ridiculosity.

2024-10-14 17:27:26

#asknostr
Has *anyone* successfully set up an #openwrt router with #mullvad?
- scoured interwebs
- spoke to mullvad support ("not tested on your snapshot")
- wasted hours and hours trying to figure this out
at my wit's end here

2024-10-14 11:08:12

Oof. The book's title is _The Marrow of Modern Divinity_, which precipitated the "Marrow Controversy"--mainly in Scotland--and led to the Seceders' formation of the ARP.
#nevent1q…a2hm

2024-10-13 11:40:01

What a fascinating history of E.F.'s _Marrow of Modern Controversy_ (1646). If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. And don't miss Thomas Boston's notes.
gm
#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

2024-10-12 12:51:17

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I said the same thing... 😁

2024-10-10 15:23:25

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I've always used git add -i but that looks more efficient. Will give it a try, ty

2024-10-10 02:56:44

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piece of cake with one of these
Stihl 2 IN 1 EASY FILE CHAINSAW CHAIN SHARPENER .325" https://a.co/d/9jS4bzb

2024-10-10 02:42:00

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Amazing book. I bet if one masters that book, he'd be more knowledgable than the majority of judges in all English-speaking countries.

2024-10-09 15:50:55

COWS MULTIPLY, YOU JACKWAGONS
PLENTY FOR ALL
#nevent1q…gzln

2024-10-09 15:42:07

Which of the bitcoin-miner space heaters allows you to direct your hashpower to the pool of your choice (including ckpool)? The heatbit didn't, last I checked.
the "H" part of the portable HVAC in my workspace died last winter, and I'd like to have some "H" so *I* don't die this winter
#heat

2024-10-09 14:32:06

Cut Ya Down 🎶

2024-10-09 12:38:22

gm 🤙
#nevent1q…d4us

2024-10-09 11:53:56

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Sad but true.

2024-10-08 22:31:03

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normies gonna normie 🙃

2024-10-08 21:11:33

spot. on.
#nevent1q…jxyx

2024-10-08 20:45:29

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I do wish "greg" was here, that dude is hilarious

2024-10-08 20:36:59

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"not all..."

2024-10-08 20:36:25

🙌🙌
#nevent1q…63rw

2024-10-08 19:54:38

oh my word people can be stupid
so can I, but...😬
#nevent1q…d4gu

2024-10-08 19:46:05

😂😂 🙃
#nevent1q…etej

2024-10-08 18:48:34

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The sense of internal relief is most welcome. Damage was done. But let's also push back _hard_ against any sense of pride or "I told you so!" They know we told them. We know that they know that we told them. It doesn't need to be said. Let's bank it without whacking them over the head with it. Perhaps next time our voices will be heard. Grace. Note the lack of discretion, absolutely--but treat our brothers and sisters with grace and magnanimity.

2024-10-08 18:44:27

What a horrific time "covid" was for church leaders (esp. those "in the know" who were so wrongly shamed by the toe-ers-of-the-line). So thankful it's [all coming out](https://theaquilareport.com/more-on-shepherds-for-sale/).
#covid #tyranny vs. #faithful #shepherds

2024-10-08 12:44:28

#NixOS Home Manager:
1) wut

2024-10-08 11:06:39

This is the way! 🙌
#nevent1q…aks8

2024-10-07 20:49:57

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Fimally!

2024-10-07 19:59:22

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZstwKJ8cps

2024-10-07 18:47:40

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https://mises.org/left-and-right/war-guilt-middle-east

2024-10-07 18:26:20

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God wrote the 8th Commandment, breh
🧐

2024-10-07 18:16:19

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the math that ensures cryptographic security came from where? the laws of physics that persist unchanged from day to day are ensured by what or whom? (don't say 'probability' bc that begs the question) does rationality (math) spring from rocks or primordial goo?
silly false dichotomy, bud 🤙

2024-10-07 18:11:48

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Insolvency is the business model.

2024-10-07 14:40:09

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I already do this about 5k+ sats/USD

2024-10-07 14:14:32

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Quite. Sign of civility, maturity, and respect.

2024-10-07 12:28:41

I haven't read much Hoppe, but his 'argumentation ethics' sounds analogous to Van Til's 'presuppositional apologetics' -- forms of the synthetic a priori, or transcendental argument.
gm

2024-10-07 12:18:53

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have you seen Indiana Jones?

2024-10-07 02:55:47

> [Since Sep 2022], the entire GitHub CLI team has changed, resulting in a loss of institutional knowledge.
[source](https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/9569)
The GitHub CLi package was signed by a GPG key that expired, the dev left, and no one saw it coming. It happened twice in two years. Sorry (kinda), but LOL.

2024-10-06 02:42:21

🤌
#nevent1q…u2k7

2024-10-05 11:56:38

👀
#nevent1q…0qer

2024-10-05 11:56:14

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That one should've been made into a movie!

2024-10-05 11:49:57

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oops quoted wrong post

2024-10-05 11:48:37

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oops quoted wrong note

2024-10-05 11:46:19

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Not all, but far too many, I agree. There is and always will be a 'faithful remnant'.
- Paul Jones, [Pagans in the Pews)(https://a.co/d/hP0C6YN)
- ", [The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Age)(https://a.co/d/3EH1aMo)
- ", [The Other Worldview: Exposing Christianity's Greatest Threat](https://a.co/d/dsp0JAj)
- Michael Horton, [Shaman and Sage: The Roots of “Spiritual but Not Religious” in Antiquity (Divine Self, 1)](https://a.co/d/6dSYDIB)

2024-10-05 11:38:50

It's astounding to me that people have said the Holy Spirit is 'conspicuously absent' from the Westminster Standards.
Look at the first 4 questions -- the headwaters for *everything* else that follows and the foundation on which all the other Qs and As are built -- half of them emphasize our absolute need for his work 'in the hearts of men.'
#Reformed #Christian #grownostr

2024-10-05 03:35:04

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...ah, then yes, of course. I wasn't saying 'no' to that bit.

2024-10-05 03:33:45

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My comment was directed at gnosticism in general.
But to your question: I believe (e.g.) John 1:12-13; John 3:3, 5, 7; Epesians 2; 1 John 3:1; etc. -- so, it depends on who you mean by 'we'...

2024-10-05 03:15:32

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Irenaus had a thing or two to say about that! 😅
I'm with him, btw-- [Against Heresies](https://www.ccel.org/ccel/irenaeus/against_heresies_i.html)

2024-10-05 03:10:44

And all the rulers of the earth assembled themselves together against the Lord, and against his anointed, crying out with one voice, saying:
#nevent1q…ztmp

2024-10-04 19:10:43

"All is One, 'we' are god, and we need to come together and realize--no, actualize-- that religiously, socially, politically, and economically. One world, one Self. This is the goal of History."
#nevent1q…ztmp

2024-10-04 18:56:50

But the world would never collectivize.
...unless there was a *global* threat--like climate change.
But there isn't a global threat like climate change.
...then we fake it with bogus numbers.
But the people won't buy it--at least not for long.
...then we make it real.
HAARP SAI DEW

2024-10-04 17:52:52

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No, I had no idea... 🤨

2024-10-04 15:36:03

"I can't believe it." -- no one, anywhere
#nevent1q…shsa

2024-10-04 13:18:53

...and again I say unto you,
"Dispensationalism is a heckuva drug."
#nevent1q…r8lr

2024-10-04 03:36:03

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"All our technologies are but improved means to unimproved ends."

2024-10-04 03:31:42

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yep, but I like it...

2024-10-03 03:45:24

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ThumbKey 😬

2024-10-02 23:48:52

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He wasn't great, but he said great things. Definitely not worse than Wilson, IMO.

2024-10-02 23:47:51

So.. how do we bring back the #gopher protocol and access it via #LoRa?
We need a people's network.
I'm tired of using DARPA/CIA's.
#WorldWidePlebs

2024-10-02 23:28:44

> A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx.
-- Reagan

2024-10-02 15:34:27

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No, but it is relative.
Time is the measure of the movement(a) of matter(b) through space(c). Without a, b, or c, there is no time.

2024-10-02 10:58:50

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I am alive seeing horrors beyond my comprehension

2024-10-02 10:55:09

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2024-10-02 10:10:02

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No. [Just War theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory)

2024-10-02 10:02:15

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no. nope, noooo.

2024-10-02 02:31:02

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Yes. Both. Twice.

2024-10-01 17:27:35

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time be like, woah

2024-10-01 13:33:03

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Well it's my head, but is it the same diagnosis, doc? I got a fever...

2024-10-01 13:30:34

Ray Ortlund, Jr. recently tweeted, in response to a post about Megan Basham's book,
> Never Trump.
>
> This time Harris.
>
> Always Jesus.
...and again I say unto you, the lack of discernment among Christians who should know better is simply astounding.
I'm no fan of Trump, but...imagine supporting a Communist. 🤡

2024-10-01 13:05:52

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Well, obviously. 😅
This is a rabbit hole I've been aware of (from the wife) but I haven't gone down. Your responses were a great introduction, ty.

2024-10-01 12:29:49

great thread:
I love it here 😂
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